Sometimes the obvious isn’t always ‘the way it is.’

The Virginia Tech Tragedy: A Wake up Call to Every Parent’s Nightmare, 17 July 2007, Dr. Donna’s College Insider View

How does a parent handle this [insecurity]? Obviously, home schooling your child through graduate school is not an option and we can’t control every situation our kids will find themselves in.

For most of us (my family included), ‘homeschooling college’ isn’t the path the kids choose. But ‘homeschooling college’ past the teen years (or even during the teen years) isn’t an impossibility. One of the first books about homeschooling that I read was by Alexandra Swann.

• No Regrets: How Home Schooling Earned Me a Master’s Degree at Age 16 (1989)

Our family didn’t follow the same homeschooling path as the Swann family, but Alexandra’s book about her education was helpful.

I’m not encouraging (or discouraging) people from following Ms. Swann’s example, only ‘reacting’ to the item above that caught my eye in a Google alert.

Other articles about Alexandra Swann are:

• Joyce Swann’s Homeschool Tips, 1994
• Not home alone – success of homeschooling movement, National Review, Sept 14, 1998
• The socialization question, enterstageright.com, October 30, 2000
• I Was an Accelerated Child (use Ctrl+F to search for “Swann”)

College-at-home articles are at:

• Homeschooling College, too?

Other college articles are:

• The Homeschooler In College – The Big Project
• An Early Dip into College Life

posted by Valerie

Tags: home education, homeschooling, homeschooling college

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